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Posted: **Fri Dec 18, 2015 1:35 pm**

Analyzed with genetic tools.

I took all those bills, lined up all those texts, coded all the characteristics, all the variations between these texts, and then ran them through the standard phylogenetic analyses that we use for DNA. We use them for dinosaurs, they get used to study virus evolution. Those same programs can be used on texts that have been copied and modified.
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It reveals a high degree of relatedness among the bills—that is, legislators make slight alterations in bills either from their own state or other states in the hopes that this time the particular wording will get the bill passed.

Edited By Malcolm on 1450463784

Posted: **Fri Dec 18, 2015 1:40 pm**

I would wager anything that goes on all the time, and not just with "anti-evolution laws".

Posted: **Fri Dec 18, 2015 1:42 pm**

Leisher wrote:I would wager anything that goes on all the time, and not just with "anti-evolution laws".

I bet all laws are the same in terms of the weaseling it takes to make them law.

Edited By Malcolm on 1450464191

Posted: **Fri Dec 18, 2015 3:01 pm**

Leisher wrote:I would wager anything that goes on all the time, and not just with "anti-evolution laws".

Sure, but in this case it's right on point. Multiple generations of legal writing with minute variations between each iteration and only those that garner more support survive to inspire the next round of legal writing ... sounds like they're evolving.

Edited By TPRJones on 1450468917